Tag: health disparities
Published Articles (4)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 7 Issue 11 - Nov 2007
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Health Care System" Angelo E. Volandes
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 7 Issue 11 - Nov 2007
Response to Open Commentaries for "The Effectiveness and Ethical Justification of Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment" Paul F. Stavis
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 7 Issue 11 - Nov 2007
Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Healthcare System Angelo E. Volandes
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 7 Issue 11 - Nov 2007
The Effectiveness and Ethical Justification of Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment Guidi R. Zanni
News (6)
January 18, 2013 11:55 am
Segregation tied to more lung cancer deaths: study (Yahoo News)
Black lung cancer patients seem more likely to die of the disease than white cancer patients in the U.S., especially those living in segregated counties, according to a new study.
January 9, 2013 3:01 pm
Obesity, lack of insurance cited in U.S. health gap (Yahoo)
Overeating, lack of health insurance access and comparatively high poverty are among the many reasons why Americans are less healthy and die younger than people in other wealthy countries, a report requested by the U.S. government showed on Wednesday.
November 14, 2012 5:24 pm
Racism Is Bad for Health (IPS)
Because of cultural and social conventions in Brazil “blacks are seen in terms of stereotypes, and that leads to them not having the same guarantees in healthcare treatment as whites have,” Crisfanny Souza Soares, a psychologist with the National Network for Social Monitoring and Health of the Black Population, told IPS.
June 7, 2012 3:29 pm
More Hispanics die waiting for a heart transplant (Reuters)
Hispanic patients in need of a heart transplant are 50 percent more likely to die before they get one than white patients, according to new research. And although that wasn’t the case for black transplant patients in the study, the results suggest they have a higher chance of dying soon after they’ve received a donor heart than whites.
June 7, 2012 12:03 am
Denial of Transplants for Undocumented Sparks Protest in Chicago (Fox News)
A group headed by a Salvadoran-born priest are completing the third day of a hunger strike to protest the refusal by two Chicago hospitals to perform organ transplants on unauthorized immigrants who lack health insurance.
May 7, 2012 11:00 am
Health disparities persist as overall care quality slowly improves (American Medical News)
Health disparities continue to plague the U.S. health care system, but small gains are giving federal officials some hope that progress will be made in years ahead with implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released its ninth annual National Healthcare Disparities Report and the National Healthcare Quality Report on April 20. The reports showed that although overall quality improved at a rate of 2.5% per year between 2002 and 2008, access to care did not.